KOPFKINO - Sven Ratzke

Name: KOPFKINO - Sven Ratzke - Wonkapodia
Start: 2026-11-12T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-12T22:35:00+01:00
Location: Parktheater Eindhoven

Musical & Show

Ratzke sets off on a musical and theatrical journey through time: from the first flickering images in a peep box to the great Hollywood classics and the poetic universes of masters such as Fellini, Fassbinder, Hitchcock and Lynch. No fewer than eighty films and a host of film genres pass in review. During the show he sings well-known film songs, sometimes witty, sometimes melancholy, such as ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ from The Wizard of Oz and ‘As Time Goes By’ from Casablanca.

“If you put the films from Kopfkino side by side, you see a portrait of my life. Perhaps that invites you to reflect on the films that shaped you.” It is not a chronological history of cinema, nor a best-of overview. “I think everyone carries their own film archive around with them. Sometimes a single melody is enough to bring a forgotten memory back to life.”

A view on film
Ratzke’s fascination with film goes back to his youth. At sixteen he managed to land a job at the Cinemariënburg art-house cinema by passing himself off as a grown-up eighteen-year-old. Surrounded by film scholars, programmers and cinephiles, he began his own informal film education there. He discovered the worlds of Fellini, Lynch and Kieślowski and saw classics that changed the way he looked at film for ever.

During Kopfkino the stage turns into a living cinema screen where past and present merge. “For me, film is the ultimate Gesamtkunstwerk,” says Ratzke. Many art forms come together in it: music, literature, photography, painting, design, poetry and theatre. “Film can capture time, or be utterly timeless. I find that endlessly fascinating.”